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By Jack Dionne

I came back from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest -including British Columbia-so loaded down and overly-convinced of the need for something im,mediate, and vital, and compelling being done for and about the Red Cedar Shingle industry, that I decided I would dig into the Shingle industry with another series of special articles, such as I published years ago when I made my first trip to that great territory.

But there are so many vital things to be discussed-so m,any strange, complexities to attack-so many points of interest to consider, that when I sit down to begin ths written discussion, it is a big job to know just where to start.

The Red Cedar Shingle industry is in so much trouble -according to the testimony of its followers everywhere I went in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia-and the trouble is of so peculiar a character, and it all seems so reasonless and unnecessary, 'and the problem-viewed in a purely abstract way-seems one so easy to solve, that instead of preaching to the shingle folks one feels a burning desire to take them over. the good old knee and spank some business sense into them with a good old Red Cedar Shingle.

And I wouldn'1 use a 6 to 2 Star for the purpose, either. I'd get a 4 to 2 Royal, 24 inches long, clear and edgegrain, and make the dust fly.

'What's the trouble with the shingle industry?

Why the shingle industry has been in trouble mighty near all the time for thirty five years, and the few times when it has been prosperous has only served to make the rest of the tin-re seem the bluer by comparison. Why even in the high tide three ye'ars ago the shingle folks made little money.

Any Red Cedar shingle man will tell Cedar Shingle is the BEST ROOFING EARTH.

And that very same shingle man will